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The Checklist The First Series: 1929 – 1930 1. Swift, Jonathan. THE TRAVELS OF LEMUEL GULLIVER. 1929. Signed by Alexander King. 2. Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. 1929. Signed by Frederic Warde. 3. Raspe, Rudolphe E. THE TRAVELS OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. 1929. Signed by John Held. 4. Whittier, John Greenleaf. SNOW-BOUND. 1930. Signed by Carl Purington Rollins. 5. Poe, Edgar Allen. THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM. 1929. Signed by Rene Clarke. 6. Stevenson, Robert Louis. TWO MEDIEVAL TALES. 1929. Signed by C. B. Falls. 7. Boccaccio, Giovanni. THE DECAMERON. 1930. 2 volumes. Signed by T.M. Cleland. 8. Irving, Washington. RIP VAN WINKLE. 1930. Signed by Frederic Goudy. 9. Daudet, Alphonse. TARTARIN OF TARASCON. 1930. 2 volumes. Signed by W.A. Dwiggins. 10. La Motte-Fouque, Friedrich de. UNDINE. 1930. Signed by Allen Lewis. 11. Defoe, Daniel. ROBINSON CRUSOE. 1930. Signed by Edward A. Wilson. 12. La Fontaine, Jean De. THE FABLES OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE. 1930. 2 volumes. Signed by Rudolph Ruzicka. The Second Series: 1930 – 1931 13. Hugo, Victor. NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS. 1930. 2 volumes. Signed by Frans Masereel. Originally issued European style, bound in paper wraps. But when many subscribers complained about the paper bindings, the publisher rebound most copies in hardcover. 14. De Quincey, Thomas. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER. 1930. Signed by Zhenya Gay and B. H. Newdigate. 15. Homer. THE ODYSSEY. 1930. Signed by J. Van Krimpen. 16. Moliere. TARTUFFE, or THE HYPOCRITE. 1930. Signed by Hugo Steiner-Prag. 17. THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI. 1930. Signed by Paolo Molnar. 18. Carlyle, Thomas. SARTOR RESARTUS. 1931. Signed by Oliver Simon. 19. AUCASSIN and NICOLETTE. 1931. Signed by Vojtech Preissig. 20. Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES. 1931. Signed by Fritz Kredel and Rudolf Koch. 21. Loti, Pierre. AN ICELAND FISHERMAN. 1931. Signed by Yngve Berg. 22. Thackeray, William Makepeace. VANITY FAIR. 1931. 2 volumes. Signed by John Austen. 23. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. MARBLE FAUN. 1931. 2 volumes. Signed by Carl Straus. 24. Homer. ILIAD. 1931. Signed by J. van Krimpen. The Third Series: 1931 – 1932 25. Fielding, Henry. HISTORY OF TOM JONES. 1931. Signed by Alexander King. 26. Franklin, Benjamin. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1931. Signed by John Henry Nash. 27. Dickens, Charles. THE CHIMES. 1931. Signed by Arthur Rackham. 28. Surtees, R. S. THE JAUNTS and JOLLITIES OF MR. JOHN JORROCKS. 1932. Signed by Gordon Ross. 29. Balzac, Honore de. DROLL STORIES. 1932. 3 volumes. Signed by W.A. Dwiggins. 30. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. FAUST A Tragedy. 1932. Signed by Rene Clarke. 31. Hearn, Lafcadio. KWAIDAN. 1932. Signed by Yasumasa Fujita. 32. Reade, Charles. THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH. 1932. 2 volumes. Signed by Lynd Ward. 33. Cooper, James Fenimore. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. 1932. Signed by Edward A. Wilson. 34. Douglas, Norman. SOUTH WIND. 1932. Signed by Carlotta Petrina. 35. Maran, Rene. BATOUALA. 1932. Signed by Miguel Covarrubias. 36. Carroll, Lewis. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. 1932. Signed by Frederic Warde. Most copies were also signed by Alice Hargreaves, the original ‘Alice’, who inspired the story. The Fourth Series: 1932 – 1933 37. Apuleius, Lucius. THE GOLDEN ASSE (The Metamorphoses). 1932. Signed by Percival Goodman. 38. Dumas, Alexandre. THE THREE MUSKETEERS. 1932. 2 volumes. Signed by Pierre Falke. 39. THE FOUR GOSPELS. 1932. Signed by Emil Rudolf Weiss. 40. Twain, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. 1933. Signed by Carl Purington Rollins. 41. Alighieri, Dante. THE DIVINE COMEDY. 1932. Signed by Hans Mardersteig. 42. Confucius. THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS. 1933. Issued in a handmade Chinese redwood box, with enameled title lettering and a small enameled Chinese design carved into the cover of the box. 43. Villon, Francois. THE LYRICS OF FRANCOIS VILLON. 1933. Signed by Howard Simon. 44. Shakespeare, William. THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK. 1933. Signed by Eric Gill. 45. Dickens, Charles. THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. 1933. 2 volumes. Signed by John Austen. 46. Tolstoy, Leo. ANNA KARENINA. 1933. 2 volumes. Signed by Nikolas Piskariov. 47. AESOP’S FABLES. 1933. Signed by Bruce Rogers. 48. Cervantes, Miguel de. DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA. 1933. 2 volumes. Signed by Enric-Cristobal Ricart. The Fifth Series: 1933 – 1934 49. France, Anatole. AT THE SIGN OF THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE. 1933. Signed by Sylvain Sauvage. 50. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. 1933. 3 volumes. Signed by Alexander King. 51. Dickens, Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. 1933. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. 52. Longus. THE PASTORAL LOVES OF DAPHNIS AND CHLOE. 1934. Signed by Ruth Reeves. 53. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. FRANKENSTEIN, OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS. 1934. Signed by Everett Henry. 54. Butler, Samuel. EREWHON. 1934. Signed by Rockwell Kent. 55. de Coster, Charles. THE GLORIOUS ADVENTURES OF TYL ULENSPEIGL. 1934. Signed by Richard Floethe. 56. Polo, Marco. THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO. 1934. 2 volumes. Signed by Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin. 57. Aristophanes. LYSISTRATA. 1934. Signed by Pablo Picasso. Illustrated with six etchings. The Limited Editions Club also issued 150 copies of a separate portfolio of the six Picasso etchings with each etching handsigned by Picasso. 58. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. 1934. Signed by Rene ben Sussan. 59. Burton, Richard (translator and notes) THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT. 1934. 6 volumes. Signed by Valenti Angelo. The Sixth Series: 1934 – 1935 60. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 1934. Signed by John Henry Nash. 61. Dickens, Charles. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. 1934. Signed by Gordon Ross. 62. Chaucer, Geoffrey. THE CANTERBURY TALES. 1934. 2 volumes. Signed by George Jones. 63. Hudson, W. H. GREEN MANSIONS. 1935. Signed by Edward A. Wilson. 64. More, Sir Thomas. UTOPIA 1934. Signed by Bruce Rogers. 65. Carroll, Lewis. THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. 1935. 1100 copies were signed by Alice Hargreaves, the original ‘Alice’. 66. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. 1935. Signed by Valenti Angelo. 67. O. Henry. (William Sydney Porter). THE VOICE OF THE CITY. 1935. Signed by George Grosz, Illustrated with twenty-one watercolors which were reproduced for the book by photolithography. (20 colorplates plus an illustrated title page). 150 portfolios of six prints were individually numbered and signed and sold separately under the title, “Baghdad On The Subway”, a name O. Henry coined for New York City. The portfolios of prints were issued by The Print Club, New York, 1935. One of the portfolios was sold by Christies in New York – Lot 103, Sale 1111, Sept 25, 2002 – for $2,629. The portfolio seldom appears in the market. 68. Twain, Mark. SLOVENLY PETER. 1935. Translation and jingles by Mark Twain. Foreword by Clara Clemens. Fritz Kredel, illustrator. Issued unsigned. 69. Melville, Herman. TYPEE. 1935. Signed by Miguel Covarrubias. 70. Sterne, Laurence. THE LIFE and OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN. 1935. 2 volumes. Signed by T. M. Cleland. 71. Joyce, James. ULYSSES. 1935. All 1500 copies were signed by Henri Matisse, who illustrated the book with etchings. 250 copies were also signed by James Joyce. According to Helen Macy, Joyce was elderly and had failing eyesight at the time of publication. So he and George Macy agreed that although it would be too hard on him to try to sign the entire limited edition, he would sign 250 copies. Macy paid Joyce $5 for each book he signed, and priced the Joyce signed copies at $15. The other 1250 copies were priced at $10. The 250 copies signed by both Joyce and Matisse were offered to subscribers through a letter offering on a first come basis, and sold out quickly. 250 portfolios of individually signed and numbered prints were sold separately. The portfolios of prints were issued by The Print Club, New York, 1935. The Seventh Series: 1935 – 1936 72. Smollett, Tobias. THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE. 1935. 2 volumes. Signed by John Austen. 73. THE HOLY BIBLE 1935-1936. 5 volumes. 74. Fitzgerald, Edward (translator). THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 1935. Signed by Valenti Angelo. 75. Butler, Samuel. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH. 1936. 2 volumes. Signed by Robert Ward Johnson. 76. Landor, Walter Savage. IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS. 1936. Signed by Giovanni Mardersteig. 77. Borrow, George. LAVENGRO. 1936. 2 volumes. Signed by Barnett Freedman. 78. Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN, OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. 1936. Signed by Edward Steichen. 79. Hale, Edward Everett. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. 1936. Signed by Edward A. Wilson. 80. Rostand, Edmond. CYRANO DE BERGERAC. 1936. Signed by Sylvain Sauvage. 81. Sterne, Laurence. A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY. 1936. Signed by Denis Tegetmeier and Eric Gill. 82. Rabelais, Francois. GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL. 1936. 5 volumes. Signed by W.A. Dwiggins. The Eighth Series: 1936 – 1937 83. Malory, Sir Thomas. LE MORTE D’ARTHUR. 1936. 3 volumes. Signed by Robert Gibbings. 84. Milton, John. PARADISE LOST and PARADISE REGAIN’D. 1936. Signed by Carlotta Petrina. 85. Aristophanes. THE FROGS. 1937. Signed by John Austen. 86. Cellini, Benvenuto. THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI. 1937. Signed by Fritz Kredel. 87. Wilde, Oscar. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL. 1937. Signed by Zhenya Gay. 88. Collodi, Carlo. PINOCCHIO, THE ADVENTURES OF A MARIONETTE. 1937. Signed by Richard Floethe. 89. Lewis, Sinclair. MAIN STREET 1937. Signed by Grant Wood. 90. Gay, John. THE BEGGAR’S OPERA 1937. Signed by Mariette Lydis. 91. Dickens, Charles. GREAT EXPECTATIONS.1937. Signed by Gordon Ross. 92. Burton, Richard F. THE KASIDAH OF HAJI ABDU EL-YEZDI. 1937. Signed by Valenti Angelo. 93. Dumas, Alexandre. CAMILLE. 1937. Signed by Marie Laurencin. 94. Allen, Hervey. ANTHONY ADVERSE. 1937. 3 volumes. Signed by Edward A. Wilson. 95. Collier, John Payne. PUNCH AND JUDY. 1937. The Ninth Series: 1937 – 1938 96.